Pre conference course H: Evaluating and Embedding Biosafety Skills: From Compliance towards Competence. - Instructors

Head of Health, Safety, and Environment, Sonic Healthcare UK 

Over 18 years’ experience working as a health and safety professional. Have worked in both public and private sector environments and I have a firm conviction of the importance of safety in the laboratory environment. As well as been a chartered safety professional I am also a qualified trainer, accredited auditor, and chartered manager. I have developed variousorganisational strategiesfor health and safety management which extends to implementing approaches on human factorsin biosafety laboratories. Currently my day-to-day work involves providing pragmatic biosafety advice to fast throughput diagnostic pathology laboratories.

Academic Education and Degrees:

• MSc Health and Safety Risk Management  
• NEBOSH Certificate & Diploma Occupational Health and Safety  
• BSc (Hons) Applied Science and Forensic Measurement  
• Level 5 Diploma Operations/Departmental Manager  
• Level 3 Award & Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training 
• Human Factors in Safety Critical Task Analysis